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ASHES

Duane Locke

Echoes from red cloth
Start the tears.
Crying although active,
Is as empty as inactive death.
Tears are flames
That turn the flesh
That once danced
Into ash piles.
Ashes become rouge
On cheeks of the afternoon.

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